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power cycle

power cycle is the alternative form of power-cycle.

Meaning of power-cycle

Verb

power-cycle (third-person singular simple present power-cycles, present participle power-cycling, simple past and past participle power-cycled)

  1. To turn a device off and then back on again, usually to restore proper function by forcing a malfunctioning or unresponsive device to reset or reinitialize, or as a step in troubleshooting the device.
    • If the computer's frozen, try power-cycling it.

Forms of power cycle

third-person singular presentpower cycles
present participlepower cycling
past participlepower cycled
pastpower cycled

Questions about power cycle

What is power cycle the alternative form of?
Power cycle is the alternative form of power-cycle.

Words near power cycle in the dictionary

  1. power creeping
  2. power creeps
  3. power crept
  4. power cut
  5. power cuts
  6. power cycle
  7. power cycled
  8. power cycles
  9. power cycling
  10. power dissipation
  11. power distance

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Adapted from Wiktionary: power cycle (page history and authors); power-cycle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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